That British queue again
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Aren't we a funny lot
We spend all day in queues with absolutely no idea why we are doing it. Then, some time later we will start whining about queueing because we've decided that we are actually fed up of them!
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Why do we always have to queue in this country? It seems that we are a nation that is obsessed with queuing for just about everything.
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| 13-3-2008 | I know we should not generalise but... I've come across a few queue jumpers. In all instances they were British! How about that?
And as a foreigner I always observe your rules. When in Rome...
Therefore I'm in deep shock any time a Briton jumps a queue. All those stories about the British ...more | Emilia |
| 01-3-2008 | When it comes to queuing most people just don't seem to grasp the concept. I don't like queuing, who does, but I've waited just like everybody else in front of me and behind me so what makes you so much more special then us.
I hate confronting them (but I do becuase it would make me se...more | Azra |
| 05-2-2008 | We queue so much for there were not as many people in the country as there was a few years ago. I's simple innit!?
I was in a queue in Tesco and I really thought I was in the Balkans. | Sandy |
| 03-2-2008 | Don't you just love our petty culture, as though a few minutes more or less would make any difference to any individual or the scheme of things for that matter | Keith R. |
| 03-1-2008 | We wait our turn, we deal with life fairly. We British are proud to say we are patient. If other nations think we are crude, arrogant or binge drinker's like the fellow in May, say what you feel.
Our country takes no crap, and any foreigner coming here must respect us and our ways and not t...more | stands alone. |
| 09-11-2007 | Col
I don't jump queues, I don't moan and I'm not envious of people who have more than me. If I have a problem with someone I tell them and we discuss it. Right time, right place works well in large supermarkets, not a family run store with three tills and barely enough space to queue...more | Lone Ranger |
| 08-11-2007 | Lone Ranger -
You are a prime example of why this country is the way it is.
I don't see anything wrong in what this lady did, right place right time, haven't you heard of this before now.
You are the type that will moan and write to the papers because you know someone that's ...more | Col |
| 08-11-2007 | I've just come back from the shops where I was in a queue. Suddenly, another cashier opened up another till and a lady walked straight up to the till, ignoring all of us in the queue. I told her to join the queue like everyone else. She said she didn't see the queue. I replied, "Now you...more | Lone ranger |
| 08-11-2007 | Queues are fair. That's all there is to it. It is an excellent British tradition which I'm proud of. (unlike the Polish lady who just put her shopping down on the conveyor belt in front of mine yesterday with no regard for queueing behind me whatsoever!) | E |
| 28-9-2007 | Continued...
His girlfriend proceeded to stare at me for ages then finally faced her back at me as I eyed her boyfriend up & down because she was scared of me. But I decided to walk away after I found out I wasn't standing in a queue so at least she could have told me. I didn't unders...more | tigerwoman |
| 28-9-2007 | I disagree with queues at the bus stop & Mc Donalds because you can't tell whether the people are standing in a triangle or what. I was standing in a queue in a straight line at Mc Donalds behind some people & I notice a couple in a queue besides myself. The woman kept on staring at me f...more | tigerwoman |
| 02-8-2007 | My gripe is in shops or post offices where there is quite a long queue and the person in front of you waits right until they get to the counter to start looking for their purse - wallet etc. This also happens on buses. The person has been waiting for the bus to arrive only to start looking for thei...more | Chester |
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